A number of different composers used accelerando/rit. to encourage ideas of playing with time, (me included) but I don't think anyone else came close to making as heavy use of it as you did. I got like, radiohead on a dangerously malfunctioning carousel, which is a fantastic mental image. So, thank you for really taking us all the way. No Thom Yorkes or carousels were harmed in the making of this album (I hope).